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Conversations with… Mrs Dani Crater (Subject: Body Positivity)
When I first created this blog, I didn’t have high expectations. I had hoped that people would read it and connect with what I had to say, but in reality I know that people are so busy that sitting down to read on an evening is something they can only dream of doing, sometimes people…
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Conversations with: Sylvia Longmire from Spin The Globe (Subject: MS and Travel)
Growing up, I always saw my Grandma Ann as just my Grandma. She had MS and was in a wheelchair, but to me that didn’t define her. She was the woman who wrote stories for me and who used to have a hoist that I would attach my Barbies too and send them around the…
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Conversations with… Lynne Andrews (Subject: Degenerative Disc Disorder)
I know Lynne through the school I used to teach at. In my first year of teaching, I taught her son and in my third year of teaching I was lucky enough to have Lynne working in my classroom as an SEN support assistant. I loved my job and a lot of that was down…
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Conversations with… Raven Swaine (Subject: Overcoming Cancer – Hodgkin’s Lymphoma)
I met Raven when I was 18 through a friend who had invited me out with her group of friends. I remember feeling absolutely terrified to walk into a strangers house and meet an already established friendship group. Nobody wants to be the new girl, but there I was, the only one there in jeans,…
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Conversations with… Elizabeth Cavanagh (Subject: Sibling Loss/Grief)
I remember the day of graduation like it was yesterday. It was 2015, I’d worked really hard to achieve a First and I couldn’t wait to celebrate three years of hard work finally being over! I had bought a new dress, the sun was shining and I couldn’t wait to see everyone who had survived…